CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD

LANGUAGE ACQUISITION THEORIES

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This theory adheres that a child’s brain contains special language-learning mechanisms at birth.
A
Cognitive
B
Innateness
C
Behaviourist
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Chomsky concluded that children must have an inborn faculty for language acquisition. According to this theory, the process is biologically determined-the human species has evolved a brain whose neural circuits contain linguistic information at birth.

Detailed explanation-2: -The concept of innateness (innate is first recorded in the period 1375–1425; from Latin innātus “inborn”) relates to types of behavior and knowledge that are present in the organism since birth (in fact, since fertilization), prior to any sensory experience with the environment.

Detailed explanation-3: -The LAD concept is a purported instinctive mental capacity which enables an infant to acquire and produce language. It is a component of the nativist theory of language. This theory asserts that humans are born with the instinct or “innate facility” for acquiring language.

Detailed explanation-4: -Noam Chomsky, known as the father of modern linguistics, has made a crucial contribution in the field of linguistics. He has opined that language has a strong biological basis, with children biologically prepared to learn a language at a certain time and in a certain way. Chomsky propounded an Innateness Theory.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Language Acquisition Device, or LAD, is part of Chomsky’s acquisition hypothesis. The LAD is a system of principles that children are born with that helps them learn language, and accounts for the order in which children learn structures, and the mistakes they make as they learn.

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